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Alternate title: '''How to create a rainy day fund for your artist.'''
During the Covid-19 lockdown, our artists have now lost a year's worth of income that would have come from public performances. Please support your artist by buying their music, joining their Patreon and tipping on their vlog live-casts. What the pandemic has exposed is that most successful indie artists have a core following of a couple of hundred engaged fans, the other 150,000 fans are apathetic and uninvolved. To make matters worse, music streaming has killed CD sales and music downloads.
The following is for those super-fans who want to do a little more for their artist in the form of a rainy day account giving.
== Concept -- personal experience ==
On May 7, 2015, I sent $3.07 worth of BitCoin to a tipping platform called ChangeTip to give to my favorite artist, she never claimed the BTC and the company returned it to me when they went out of business. As of this morning (March 19, 2021) that 0.0131046 BTC ($3.07) is now worth $763.91. (I certainly hope she does not ask me for it now because I don't have it anymore!!!)